I spent most of my day on April 16 glued to my roommate’s 11-inch TV, not even knowing why I was watching. I could not function that week, and I had never felt more alone in my life. The third day after the shootings, I had my father drive me home to Blacksburg, Va., because I could not bear to be away from my grief-stricken mountain town for another minute.

A Cambridge woman’s past was disrobed last week when the state’s highest judicial court resurrected indecent exposure charges that had been filed against her several years ago.

During the last year, discussions about gun control and mental health have hovered around college campuses.

Drayton Vincent, clinical director at the LUS Student Health Center, said even before the shootings at Virginia Tech, he noticed an increase of students seeking mental health counseling at the University.

NYU officials want to build a system that can lock down a classroom at the push of a button, sounding an alarm and keeping intruders out. An entire floor or building could be secured by Public Safety remotely. Public announcement systems would issue instructions and information. Across campus, cell phones would ring, alerting students with NYU’s new emergency voice and text messaging system.

UCF police were locked and loaded with blanks and high-tech sensors Monday when they stormed into a vacant building in Research Park, looking for a “shooter.”

Virginia Tech’s darkest hour may serve as the most important lesson on emergency preparedness U. Florida will ever receive.